The Midwest Book Review reviews Richard Grayson's Lincoln's Doctor's Dog in May 1982:
LINCOLN’S DOCTOR’S DOG, AND OTHER STORIES. By Richard Grayson. White Ewe Press (P.O. Box 996, Adelphi, MD 20783). $11.95
The voice of Richard Grayson is not consistent in his latest collections: that much is evident from the start. Some of his stories, which may be loosely classified as avant-garde fiction, seem to blatently [sic] make social commentaries without significantly drawing reader interest. Others cultivate a tongue-in-cheek humor that engrosses the reader in whatever subject is being revealed as in, for example, the unlikely tale ‘A Sense of Porpoise’, in which a man’s experiences with a live-in, talking porpoise assume Freudian overtones.
Some stories reveal Grayson’s distinct New York background and reflect some of the modern-day attitudes of the typical inner-city inhabitant caught in incongruous chains of events. Others, such as the humerous [sic] treatise ‘Lincoln’s Doctor’s Dog’, are simply drawn from Grayson’s imaginative musings.
The result: a mixed collection of droll and humerous [sic] works that New Yorkers, in particular, will appreciate.
–Diane C. Donovan
San Francisco, CA
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